The Midnight Assassin: The Hunt for America's First Serial Killer - Paperback
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Languages:EnglishPublisher:Picador USAISBN-13:9781250118493ISBN-10:1250118492UPC:9781250118493Book Category:True Crime, HistoryBook Subcategory:Murder, United StatesBook Topic:Serial Killers, State & Local, 19th CenturySize:8.20 x 5.40 x 1.00 inchesWeight:0.5997Product ID:SCD8E8C5KX
Winner of the Texas Institute of Letters's Carr P. Collins Award
A New York Times BestsellerOne of Book Riot Best Book of the Year
In nineteenth-century Austin, Texas, a ruthless murderer terrorized the city in what would soon become a story more shocking than any fiction. In the late 1800s, just as Austin was on the cusp of emerging from an isolated western outpost into a truly cosmopolitan metropolis, a series of brutal murders rocked the burgeoning city and shook it to its core. At the time, the concept of a serial killer was unknown and unimaginable, but the murders continued, the killer became more brazen, and the citizens' panic reached a fever pitch. For more than a decade, Texas Monthly journalist Skip Hollandsworth has researched this gripping tale of murder and madness that plays out like a well-crafted whodunit. With vivid historical detail and novelistic flair, Hollandsworth's The Midnight Assassin: The Hunt for America's First Serial Killer brings this terrifying saga to life.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Picador USAISBN-13:9781250118493ISBN-10:1250118492UPC:9781250118493Book Category:True Crime, HistoryBook Subcategory:Murder, United StatesBook Topic:Serial Killers, State & Local, 19th CenturySize:8.20 x 5.40 x 1.00 inchesWeight:0.5997Product ID:SCD8E8C5KX
Skip Hollandsworth is an award-winning journalist, screenwriter, and executive editor of Texas Monthly magazine. His work was included in the 2006 edition of Best American Crime Writing and he has won a National Magazine Award for feature writing. Hollandsworth co-wrote the acclaimed screenplay "Bernie" with director Richard Linklater. He lives in Texas with his wife.
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